Happy, Merry, Joyous Holiday... almost!

Oh, the happiest part of this time of year is that I am not currently in classes and have little teaching responsibility other than normal house and family stuff... it is heavenly! I have not actually been using all that time to the greatest benefit, but I am still getting used to HAVING it in the first place, and not having a long list of imposed tasks and deadlines to occupy my time. Ahhh, I hardly know what to do!

Participate in challenges, of course! Laura will be taking a break over the holidays so I will just have to go back and do some of the large backlog that I missed to keep myself busy. I have much to make up in challenges and in practice. I have been looking through old books trying to find the nifty Christmas tree I did last year that I wanted to use as a card this year and perusing all the older drawings as I looked for it... boy, I was much better then that I am now! But as for now, I did another holiday themed piece this week to take advantage of the last Diva Challenge for 2013...

I was thinking ornaments since we were doing the tree finally this week. I liked it in black and white, but it seemed like it needed something. Once the color was added it looked a little... 'coloring book' but maybe it is just the red-blue-green scheme. Unfortunately the sparkle gelly roll pens I used to highlight certain parts do not show up well in the scan because that does make it seem a little more elegant. 

this was before color

Well, I will be seeing you - have a great holiday season!